by rwhawkins | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
I always loved photography, but got even more into it when I realized it was a “practice”, an excuse to explore the world around me. The end goal of making photos was important to motivate me to continue the practice. As I get older fitness is on my mind,...
by rwhawkins | Jun 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
During my trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion zone I was able to explore the unfinished reactors 5 and 6. Those are large concrete mazes with huge rooms which were very dark and not all that photogenic, we mostly were looking for a way to get to the roof to shoot an...
by rwhawkins | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hospitals are the sanctuary of a city, life and death are confronted here on a daily basis. After the Chernobyl explosion, the main hospital of Pripyat was inundated with the injured. Surprisingly, it seems the power plant and the hospital did not have a set emergency...
by rwhawkins | May 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
Throughout Pripyat there are a number of amazing murals and public art works. I had a short list of murals that I wanted to photograph during my trip. A couple afternoons during downtime we would visit the center of Pripyat and wander to some of the more popular...
by rwhawkins | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
One afternoon we visited the small memorial in the parking lot next to reactor 4. This is about as close as visitors can get to the actual site of the accident unless they are given special permission to cross the fence and go inside the facility. Not more than a...
by rwhawkins | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Don’t go in the basement!” It sounded like the start of a horror movie, but it was the start of a great couple hours of abandoned photography. The Jupiter factory was high on my list of places to photograph during my trip to the exclusion zone....
